Creem 1977 Readers' Poll
 

The Creem 1977 Readers' Poll, which ran in the March 1978 issue, had some interesting surprises & some expected but gratifying results.

Top Albums
1. Rumours
2. Love You Live
3. Cat Scratch Fever
4. Love Gun
5. Going for the One

Top Songs
1. Dreams
2. Cat Scratch Fever
3. God Save the Queen
4. Barracuda
5. Life in the Fast Lane

Best R&B Single
1. Sir Duke
2. Boogie Nights
3. Lido Shuffle
4. Easy
5. I Wish
6. Brick House
7. Dreams

Top Groups
1. Led Zeppelin
2. Fleetwood Mac
3. Kiss
4. Rolling Stones
5. Aerosmith

Top Live Groups
1. Led Zeppelin
2. Kiss
3. Aerosmith
4. Queen
5. Fleetwood Mac

Best Female Singer
1. Linda Ronstadt
2. Stevie Nicks
3. Ann Wilson
4. Patti Smith
5. Christine McVie
6. Grace Slick

Best R&B Singer
1. Mick Jagger
2. Stevie Wonder
3. Boz Scaggs
4. David Bowie
5. Southside Johnny
6. George Benson
7. Rod Stewart
8. Peter Wolf
9. Stevie Nicks
10. Willy DeVille

Best Keyboardist
1. Keith Emerson
2. Rick Wakeman
3. Elton John
4. Christine McVie
5. Gary Wright

Hero/Heroine of the Year
1. Robert Plant
2. Jimmy Page
3. Keith Richard
4. Gene Simmons
5. Ted Nugent
6. Stevie Nicks
7. Steve Martin
8. David Bowie

Comeback of the Year
1. Iggy Pop
2. Fleetwood Mac
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
5. Crosby, Stills & Nash
6. Bob Welch

Album Cover of the Year
1. Love Gun
2. Rumours
3. Love You Live
4. Book of Dreams
5. I'm in You
6. News of the World

Fashion Plate of the Year
1. Johnny Rotten
2. Gene Simmons
3. Stevie Nicks
4. Rod Stewart
5. David Bowie
6. Deborah Harry

Sex Object of the Year
1. Stevie Nicks
2. Robert Plant
3. Linda Ronstadt
4. Paul Stanley
5. Farrah Fawcett-Majors
6. Deborah Harry

Couple of the Year
1. Rod Stewart & Britt Ekland
2. Mick & Bianca Jagger
3. Gregg & Cher Allman
4. Paul & Linda McCartney
5. Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham
6. Robert & Maureen Plant
7. David Bowie & Iggy Pop

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If they say so.

Huh??? Creem really was/is a stoner magazine.

I've never really thought of Dreams as an R&B song. :laugh:

Yeah...and I don't think Creem readers really actuallly know or listen to R&B.

well Dreams DOES kinda have an R&B feel to it.. esp the original Rumours album version.


Chris

I think so too - even Dallas Austin noticed as much when he said "even old '70s Fleetwood Mac tunes like Nicks' Rhiannon and Dreams have a R&B groove running through them." http://fmlegacy.com/steviestrouble.htm

Speaking of Dallas Austin...does anyone know if the tracks he produced for TISL have ever been circulated? Or was there anything even recorded?

Not enough to call it an R&B single or Nicks an R&B singer (which I found hilarious).

I'd venture to say she's as "R&B" as David Bowie, Peter Wolf and Rod Stewart. ;)

But you're just cranky because she trounced Debbie in two categories. :laugh:

I would never call any of them R&B. :laugh:

Hee. Considering Nicks was named an R&B singer, I'll consider the sources. ;)

Neither would I. Wouldn't call Stevie an R&B singer either. But she was at least as deserving of the title as her competition was.

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Gotta give Stevie credit... she beat FARRAH FREAKIN' FAWCETT!!! :thumbsup:

Where were The Eagles in this poll? Weren't they huge at that time too? Just curious.

They were in a couple of categories, but the Creem readership generally really hated the Eagles -- much like the Rolling Stone readership (& staff) at the time.

Really? Why? Were they considered too AC, even at that time?

Creem readership was essentially more aggressive, more geared to the punk, alternative & metal scenes, than to the milky white Eagles. Fleetwood Mac wasn't highly regarded by that magazine's readership, either, despite the good showing in the 1977 Readers' Poll.

As for Rolling Stone, the Eagles had a legendarily tough time there throughout the 1970s. There were ongoing feuds between the band & the staff -- quite entertaining, if you followed it in Random Notes -- that were the result of many poor reviews of Eagles albums & concerts in Rolling Stone. It really wasn't just Rolling Stone, either. The Eagles were never the critics' pets that Fleetwood Mac were in the late '70s. While the latter were considered dodgy, feisty, idiosyncratic pop craftsmen with an Appalachian country atmosphere, the former were pilloried in the rock press as being ultra-bland purveyors of dilluted modern country "product."

Only a few scattered critics wrote approvingly of some of the Eagles work, like Robert Hilburn of the L.A. Times, who were looking beyond the surface blandness into the disturbing & dark aspects of California life among the rich & famous.